How exactly does distributing MySQL as part of your application make your application GPL as well? It doesn't. The acceptance of the GPL (as of V2, haven't re

How exactly does distributing MySQL as part of your application make your application GPL as well? It doesn't. The acceptance of the GPL (as of V2, haven't read V3) for a software component does not compel you to use any particular license for your own work. You can, by distributing the GPL'd work with you own non-open software, be in violation of the license on the GPL'd work, but the repercussion is a loss of the right to distribute the GPL'd work potentially enforced by injunction, and not an automatic change of your own license as the phrase "make your application GPL as well" implies.